How are uses of the internet, especially user-generated and social media, changing our political landscape? Does political revolution today need the internet? Are there limits to what “online” revolutions can produce?
What do we mean by “globalization” and how is it useful as a concept? What are the links to imperialism, and colonialism? What does a world economy include?
What are relationships between the political changes (from the nineteenth to twentieth centuries) to the structures of capitalism? How can we link back our understanding modern globalization to earlier periods of empire?
What are ways that urban spaces reflect the economic structures of globalization? In what ways might cities make those economics possible?
What are some of the relationships between national identity and global flows (of money and military, for example)? What understanding of immigration and immigrant identity do we get when we center analyses of sexuality and gender in addition to race?
What does the term “prison-industrial complex” describe? How is it a useful concept, or not? What has driven the expansion of prisons and imprisoned populations over the past few decades? What are the relationships between prison growth, crime, and safety? What role does economics play, and how does the concept of globalization help us understand this role?
Why do we have prisons? How is the history of the prison linked to the long history of globalization? What would happen if we didn’t have prisons?
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